Criticism for the free-thinking eye
Essays and reviews on painting, sculpture, craft, photography, film, theatre and literature.
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Art of Bangladesh
View all →The Quiet Radicalism of Zainul’s Famine Sketches
A close reading of line, labour and witness in works that refused to look away.
Stone That Remembers: Public Monuments After 1971
How material carries memory, and who decides what a public form should say.
Light on the River: A New Generation of Documentary Photographers
Between document and art, a camera is always taking a position.
Folk Art
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Terracotta and the Temple Walls
How material carries memory, and who decides what a public form should say.
Jatra’s Long Afterlife
Performance as public argument, from the proscenium to the pavement.
Folk Motifs in the Modern Canvas
A close reading of line, labour and witness in works that refused to look away.
Global Art
View all →Color After Abstraction
A close reading of line, labour and witness in works that refused to look away.
Archive as Argument
Between document and art, a camera is always taking a position.
The Festival Circuit and Its Discontents
Returning to films that still unsettle, and asking why they refuse to age.
Literature
View all →Reading the Margins: Little Magazines and Dissent
On the margins of print, where dissent has always found its first readers.
Translation as Criticism
On the margins of print, where dissent has always found its first readers.
The Critic’s Burden
On the margins of print, where dissent has always found its first readers.
